Fans of WWE 2K19 and WWE 2K20 will have to start thinking about upgrading to the latest game if they want to keep playing online, and 2K announced that support for the older games’ online features will end at the end of June. The studio has said that the reason for extincting the older games is so they can focus on supporting this year’s release, WWE 2K22.
Servers will be shut down on June 30, 2022, at which time all online features for WWE 2K19 and 2K20 will be unavailable; this includes online matches, downloading or uploading community-created content, and anything else that requires a connection to the servers
While WWE 2K20 was poorly received, criticized for being buggy and unambitious compared to previous games, WWE 2K19 still has its fans. Many gamers stuck with the previous game even after the release of 2K20, leading up to the release of 2K22 earlier this year, with the franchise skipping a 2021 installment to spend time getting the next game right.
For now, 2K19 fans have just over a month and a half to download the community creations they want to keep on their accounts. Meanwhile, WWE 2K22 has been hailed as a vast improvement on 2K20, if not already a masterpiece in its own right. GameSpot’s review of 2K22 rated it 7/10, saying “there are still flaws when it comes to multi-person play, and not all of the new modes are particularly compelling, but 2K22 lays a solid foundation for the future.”
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